Meet the composers
Connect with some of today’s most exciting composers, showcasing the richness and diversity of new music in the UK.
Explore the composers below or take our quiz and discover which Music Patron composer is the best match for you.
- Musical theatre
- Pop
Rachel is a GRAMMY voting member, the recipient of a prestigious British Citizen Award for contribution to the arts.
The writer of new British musical The Circle and winner of the Stiles and Drewe Best New Song Prize 2023, Rachel is currently writing songs with Grammy, Emmy and Ivor Novello award winners, The Voice UK and American Idol alumni and Oscar nominees.
- Musical theatre
- Pop
Gus is an award-winning writer and composer based in York. For his first full-length musical Pieces of String in 2018 (which was named for The Stage’s Best Regional Musical of the year) Gus won The Stage Debut Award for Best Composer/Lyricist, and was nominated for a Writer’s Guild of Great Britain award for Best Musical Theatre Bookwriting. His second full-length musical Mayflies premiered at York Theatre Royal in 2023, to great acclaim.
- Folk
- Vocal and choral
Anna Anise brings a warm summer breeze of uplifting folk songs, folded into traditional jigs and reels from which she finds inspiration for her storytelling songwriting. She is a performing singer/songwriter with an infectious energy onstage and an ability to bring a whole room together with her relatable, heartfelt songcraft.
- Electronic
- Orchestral
Marc is a composer and abstract landscape painter based across Dorset and Somerset, whose music has been performed by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and Hallé Orchestra among others.
Video diaries and digital postcards with rural and coastal backdrops enable patrons to get a close-up of his unique dual creative worlds.
